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Aryzta Food Solutions is the Number 1 frozen bakery supplier in Europe with 23 bakeries in 10 countries. Originally founded as Delice de France by Philippe Signolet in 1989 having been acquired by IAWS in 1999 it then merged with Swiss Company Heistand in 2008 becoming Aryzta Food Solutions in 2014. Aryzta is a derivation of the word “Arista”, which means the pinnacle or apex of a single ear of wheat.

At ARYZTA Food Solutions we’re united by a passion for food and the desire to create food to go solutions that help retail businesses serve memorable taste experiences.

Our aim is to meet the needs of shoppers through a range of food to go solutions tailored for the retail market and also through product ranges that we continuously review and refresh to suit the needs of the retail shopper of today either for immediate consumption or as part of a take home shop. We are living in a period of great change which includes the shopping habits of our nation. Shoppers are looking for convenience, great tasting products and a quality assurance with food to go playing an ever increasingly important role within todays retail and convenience stores with our concepts and products meeting the needs for all the key food to go categories of In Store Bakery, Hot Food to Go and Coffee.

British American Tobacco’s portfolio holds over 200 brands, sold in 180 markets. Recognisable names include Kent, Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.

The four building blocks of British American Tobacco’s strategy are Growth, Productivity, Developing a Winning Organisation, and Responsibility. They believe each area to be interdependent and essential for delivering profit growth and long term business sustainability.

Here at the Burtons Biscuit Company, we are very proud to be the purveyors of some of the nation’s favourite biscuits.

With brands including Maryland, Cadbury Fingers, Jammie Dodgers, Wagon Wheels and Fish n’ Chips, we have been baking biscuits for more than 75 years in three main manufacturing facilities across the UK in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans.

We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits and this dedication has helped us deliver on our vision of ‘Making Every Day More of a Treat.’

Address: 74-78 Victoria Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3XH

www.burtonsbiscuits.com

Wills Jennings, 01727 899700, 07850 972396, wills.jennings@burtonsbiscuits.com

Carlsberg was founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen after the name of his son Carl. The main beers are Carlsberg, Carlsberg Export and Carlsberg special brew.

Carlsberg was proud to be the Official Beer of UEFA EURO 2012™, The England Team and a founding partner for Wembley Stadium and sponsor a number of Clubs around the country from Premiership teams right through to League 2.

Coca Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca Cola trademarks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in west London.

Here in Great Britain we manufacture and market a wide range of drinks. Our carbonated soft drinks include well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite and Fanta, as well as Oasis still fruit drinks, isotonic sports drink Powerade and Abbey Well water. We also own the Schweppes product range, Relentless energy drinks and the Glaceau Vitamin Water range.

Coca Cola Enterprises also manufactures and distributes some products for other brand owners. These include Capri-Sun, Monster energy drinks and the Appletiser, Peartiser and Fruitiser range of sparkling fruit juices.

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One Vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness.

At Ginsters, we make far more than just great pasties. We have an extensive range of convenient, fresh foods to keep everyone’s taste buds tingling. In fact, Ginsters has pretty much something for all the family.

Whether you fancy our Pasties, Sandwiches or Pies, all our products are properly filled, using quality British ingredients and bursting with Cornish flavour. Everything we make has a classic Ginsters signature: properly filled to the brim, with the great taste of Cornwall in every delicious bite.

HEINEKEN is the UK's leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind iconic brands such as Strongbow, Bulmers, Foster's, Kronenbourg 1664, Desperados, and of course Heineken® along with a full range of craft and speciality brands.

Headquartered in Edinburgh, HEINEKEN employs around 2,000 colleagues, spread across sites in London, Hereford, Ledbury, Manchester, Tadcaster and Edinburgh as well as out in the field.

HEINEKEN is also a passionate supporter of the Great British Pub. Since 2012, HEINEKEN has invested more than £100m in its Star Pubs & Bars pub estate to broaden their appeal for consumers. In 2017, HEINEKEN acquired around 1,900 more pubs, bringing the total estate to around 3,000 pubs.

HEINEKEN was established in 1864 when Gerard Adriaan Heineken bought the Haystack brewery in Amsterdam and has since gone on to become the world’s most international brewer. Globally HEINEKEN owns, markets and sells over 250 brands.

HEINEKEN’s Star Retailer programme offer Category advice to Independent Retailers in the Convenience sector on how to maximise profits from cider and beer looking at range and merchandising.

Please click on the “got to website” button to visit the Star Retailer website – or enter www.starretailer.co.uk into your browser.

More information about the HEINEKEN business and our brands can be found at www.heineken.co.uk

Imperial Tobacco is a leading international tobacco company with a balanced market footprint and a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories.

Our comprehensive and versatile portfolio of brands and products gives us strong representation in all tobacco products and across all price segments. Our brands include, Davidoff, Gauloises Blondes, West and JPS.

Kerry Foods is a leading supplier of added-value branded and customer branded chilled food products.   We supply our products to major supermarket chains, convenience stores and independent retailers across the UK, Ireland and selected international markets. We manufacture food products across three major sectors: Dairy, Meat & Savoury and Meal Solutions. Included in our portfolio of consumer branded products are over 20 high profile brands, many of which are category leaders in the chilled cabinet.

The portfolio comprises:

• in Ireland; Denny, Galtee, LowLow, Dairygold, Cheestrings, Charleville Cheese, Shaws, Coleraine, Golden Cow, EasiSingles, Kerrymaid and Golden Olive
• in the UK; Richmond, Wall’s, Mattessons, Cheestrings, Pure, Mr. Brain’s and Homepride flour.

We’re also a leading producer of supermarket private label products, ranging from chilled and frozen ready meals, cooked meats, cheese and dairy products.

Liberty Flights was founded in 2009 and is now seen as one of the most trusted and well respected vape suppliers in the UK. The business has been built on strong principles – high quality products, excellent customer service and dedicated resource and support for retailers.

Year on year Liberty Flights has seen growth in sales and according to Nielsen data April 2017 became the fastest growing vape supplier with a 54.2% increase in sales. In Feb 2018 Liberty Flights became the Number 1 vaping supplier in a major convenience chain and as a result of this have successfully helped to grow their overall vaping sales. This growth for Liberty Flights and partners is a result of our commitment to supporting the convenience store sector.  

When people think of Mars, they most often think of chocolate – and we do make some of the best-loved chocolate in the world. But we’re about much more than that. We are a privately owned company with approximately 70,000 Associates who are committed to delivering the best quality in pet care, making office breaks more refreshing with delicious teas and coffees, putting wholesome food on family tables and bringing smiles to millions around the world with our gum, confections , and of course, chocolate.

Our dream is to create delicious moments of joy in everything we do.

Our 110,000 employees support this dream by manufacturing and marketing delicious food and beverage products for consumers in 165 countries around the world. We are the world’s pre-eminent maker of snacks, with leading market shares in every category and every region of the world in which we compete. Mondelēz International holds the No. 1 position globally in Biscuits, Chocolate, Candy and Powdered Beverages as well as the No. 2 position in Gum and Coffee.

About three-quarters of our annual revenue is generated in the fast growing Biscuits, Chocolate and Gum & Candy categories, and more than 40 percent of our sales come from high-growth developing markets.

Based in Market Drayton, Müller Yogurt & Desserts is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer, responsible for major brands such as Müller Corner, Müllerlight and Müller Rice. It also produces, at production facilities in Minsterley near Shrewsbury, chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. Müller Yogurt & Desserts also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a state of the art yogurt facility in Telford, Shropshire.

Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. We are a major player within the UK and Irish food industry employing 7,000 employees across the 19 sites of all our business.

We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year

NoteMachine is the UK’s largest cash machine supplier and the number one independent ATM business in Europe. From Self Fill cash machines to Fully Managed cash solutions Note Machine aim to offer a cost effective, efficient and profitable service.

NoteMachine is pleased to be working with Paul Cheema in providing a free to use ATM for the family’s Costcutter store in Tile Hill, Coventry. Paul won the prestigious Convenience Retail Award for Independent Retailer of the Year in March 2013

PepsiCo UK & Ireland employs over 5,500 people across 13 locations. These locations include the Quaker Oats mill at Cupar in Scotland, a world-leading potato crisp manufacturing plant in Leicester and the Copella apple juice plant at Boxford in Suffolk, as well as a number of other manufacturing, distribution and administration sites.

Our core brands are Walkers, Quaker, Tropicana and Pepsi – but the business also includes a wide range of other products, including, Snack a Jacks, Sunbites and Copella.

The Post Office provides a range of over the counter, online and telephone services ranging from finance, insurance, and travel services to letters and parcels.

The Post office also provides a wide range of services on behalf of councils and government departments, from application to payments, helping them to improve access to services and reduce costs.

Modernisation is a key focus of the Post Office and one of the first steps of this scheme is demonstrated by digital inclusion. Post Office has been a partner of Race Online 2012 since 2010 and in the past two years has seen over 2million adults go online for the first time, representing progress towards a more equal society.

Propercorn is the UK’s fastest growing popcorn brand. Founded on a “Done Properly” ethos and belief that there shouldn’t have to be a compromise between health and taste, their award-winning collection of popcorn can be found in 10 countries across Europe, selling 3million packs per month.

Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.

16 of our 40 brands are market leaders including Persil, Dove, Magnum, Flora, Marmite, Lynx – and you can find our products in the kitchens, fridges, freezers and bathrooms in nine out of ten UK homes.

URBAN eat is the UK’s No. 1 sandwich brand. We create a handcrafted range of sandwiches, salads, prepared fruits, hot eats and snacks to free consumers from lunch fatigue. We recognise that Food To Go is a major footfall driver for the convenience channel and provide creative, convenient and edgy food, with something for every type of retailer and consumer.

Weetabix Food Company is the second largest branded manufacturer of cereals and cereal bars in the United Kingdom. Based in Northamptonshire, UK, its family of brands includes Weetabix, Alpen, Ready brek, Weetos, Oatibix, Alpen cereal Bars, Alpen Porridge and Weetabix on the go breakfast drinks.  The Weetabix brand has been manufactured and sold in the UK since 1932; today it is the UK’s number one selling, most trusted and most recommended cereal and is one of Britain’s most iconic brands.